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04 July 2007

The Rasmussen Reports recently asked Americans whether they have favorable or unfavorable views
of every president from George Washington to The Decider. Naturally, Washington and Lincoln are the tops. Nixon and Bush are, well, not. The winner of the "not sure" category, with 74% not sure, is the guy in the picture. (Rhymes with Tohn Jyler.)

The full results are here and here. (There is clearly an error with the results for McKinley.)

UPDATE: The McKinley error has been corrected. He received a response of "very unfavorable" from 4% of respondents, not 40%.

Once again, on behalf of the editors, I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies(4:2) is available (here for e-subscribers) and, once again, on time. Hard copies for JELS subscribers and libraries are "in transit." The topicality of published papers in 4:2 ranges from an evaluation of Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago (abstract here) to estimates of jury false convictions (abstract here).

02 July 2007

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has posted some new data releases here. Based on the titles, some interesting looking datasets include: "United States Entrepreneurial Assessment, 2004"; "Annual Survey of Jails: Jurisdictional-Level Data, 2004"; "Measuring Police-Community Interaction Variables in Indianapolis, 1999-2000"; and "Police-Public Contact Survey, 2005."

ICPSR has very strong documentation standards. It would be terrific if this norm took hold in the ELS community.